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Inuit Nunangat currently functions through a variety of legal systems. As a Canadian jurisdiction, all of Inuit Nunangat falls under the federally overseen Criminal Code for criminal law. Inuvialuit Nunangat in the Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, and Nunatsiavut in Labrador are all subject to the English common law tradition.
Inuit Nunaat is used by the international Inuit Circumpolar Council; for example in the April 2009 "Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic." [ 106 ] Two months later, in June 2009, the Canadian-sponsored Inuit organization changed the name of the specifically Canadian Inuit regions from Inuit Nunaat to Inuit Nunangat [ 107 ...
This is a partial list of Canadian Inuit. The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous Canadians inhabiting the Northwest Territories , Nunavut , Nunavik ( Quebec ) and Nunatsiavut ( Labrador ) that are collectivity referred to as Inuit Nunangat .
Inuit Nunangat ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ The Inuvialuit Settlement Region , abbreviated as ISR ( Inuinnaqtun : Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq – INS ; French : Région désignée des Inuvialuit – RDI ), located in Canada's western Arctic , was designated in 1984 in the Inuvialuit Final Agreement by the Government of Canada for the ...
Eskimology / ˌ ɛ s k ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i / or Inuitology is a complex of humanities and sciences studying the languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of the speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages and Inuit, Yupik and Aleut (or Unangam), sometimes collectively known as Eskimos, in historical and comparative context.
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.
The words Inuktitut, or more correctly Inuktut ('Inuit language') are increasingly used to refer to both Inuinnaqtun and Inuktitut together, or "Inuit languages" in English. [12] Nunavut is the home of some 24,000 Inuit, over 80% of whom speak Inuktitut. This includes some 3,500 people reported as monolinguals.
The Thule Tradition lasted from about 200 BC to 1600 AD around the Bering Strait, the Thule people being the prehistoric ancestors of the Inuit. [4] The Thule culture was mapped out by Therkel Mathiassen , following his participation as an archaeologist and cartographer of the Fifth Danish Expedition to Arctic America in 1921–1924.